Planning your treatment

After you have had your scan the images are sent to our radiotherapy planning software. From here your consultant will outline the area which needs to be treated and any other organs which may be in the same area. These are known as 'organs at risk' (OAR). Once the outlining has been completed the radiotherapy planning team use a very complex and advanced planning system to plan your treatment. Everybody has their own individual plan for their radiotherapy treatment. When the plan is finalised it is checked and signed off by the consultant and two medical physicists ensuring the best possible treatment plan for you. 

Calculation room

Once the plan has been finalised and signed off it is sent to our calculation room which is run by the radiographers. Here, the plan is checked again and all the necessary information and images are imported to our radiotherapy treatment system ready for you to start your treatment.